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Ballet dancer Jacques d'Amboise is among the performing artists who will be honored at the Kennedy Center here in Washington, D.C. tonight for outstanding achievement in the performing arts. d'Amboise made a career performing in George Balanchine's New York City Ballet. He then went on to found the National Dance Institute. Kim Kokich prepared this appreciation.

NPR'S JACKIE LYDEN TALKS ABOUT THE GREAT CANADIAN WRITER ROBERTSON DAVIES, WHOSE FUNERAL SHE ATTENDED THIS WEEK. 6:00.

LETTERS: We hear letters from our listeners.

Commentator Larry Magid says that all the hoopla over Windows '95 may have been just that. So far the new computer operating system hasn't really changed Larry's life -- at least not compared to what changed when he went from his IBM Selectric to his first computer.

SCOTT SPEAKS WITH REPORTER MALCOLM GLADWELL, WHO HAS WRITTEN AN ARTICLE ABOUT THE INEVITABILITY OF DISASTERS SUCH AS THE CHALLENGER EXPLOSION THAT HAPPENED TEN YEARS AGO TOMORROW. SCOTT THEN CONTINUES WITH THOUGHTS ABOUT THE ANNIVERSARY.

Laura Ziegler (f) reports that today marks the final installment of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. It's creator Bill Waterson has decided to end the strip after more than 10 years, because he wants to be free of deadline pressure when drawing his cartoons.

In a new report, activists say ICE systematically retaliates against them for their work, despite the agency's denials. Advocates want the Biden administration to officially forbid the practice.

Linda speaks with Dr. Brian Ettinger, an endocronoligist with the Research Division of Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program in Oakland, California. Dr. Ettinger authored a study about the benefits of taking estrogen hormone pills. According to this new study, there is strong evidence that taking estrogen hormone pills offers protection against heart attacks and strokes in postmenopausal women. The study found that there was a 46 percent reduction in the rate of death from all causes in these women. Dr. Ettinger's study appears today in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Today at noon across the country, church bells were rung to mark a day of prayer for the U.S. and other NATO peacekeepers in Bosnia, and for those they protect. The event was called for by Christian, Muslim and Jewish leaders nationwide.